Hanging Chads, Part Deux?
By Thomas JeffreyArticle Posted: Monday December 31, 2007
Last week, Colorado’s secretary of state Mike Coffman urged lawmakers to change state law to allow various counties who depend upon electronic voting machines to tally election results to “patch” the software the runs them, arguing that without the software update, the machines cannot be certified for use in the upcoming elections. Mr. Coffman cites issues with machines manufactured by Seqouia Voting Systems, Hart InterCivic, and Election Systems & Software and included both electronic voting and optical scanning machines. The move follows a similar one by Ohio two weeks ago in which that state’s secretary of state issued a review of their own voting machines that found serious security issues with both Hart and ESS machines, as well as those manufactured by Premier Election Solutions, the company that was once the infamous Diebold. In both cases, the decertification of scores of electronic voting machines has left some municipalities in a lurch, struggling to quickly find a means with which to record their citizens votes before the primary.
LWNJ—Pen and paper, anyone?
Colorado voting machines don’t make the grade — Engadget.com
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Podcast #117
By Thomas JeffreyArticle Posted: Tuesday April 15, 2008
Leftwing Nutjob Podcast, Episode 117, for Sunday, April 13, 2008
Penn hits the bricks, Iran in the spotlight again, the Obama money machine, al Qaeda’s rising star and more!